The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design - Hardcover

Way, Thaļsa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0295994487 ISBN 13: 9780295994482

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2015

Synopsis

Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. He reshaped the field of landscape architecture as a designer, teacher, and activist. In 1964, Haag founded the landscape architecture department at the University of Washington, and his innovative work contributed to the increasingly significant design approach known as urban ecological design, which encourages thinking beyond the boundaries of gardens and parks to consider the broader roles that landscapes play within urban ecosystems, such as storm water drainage and wildlife habitat.

Gas Works Park is studied in every survey of twentieth-century landscape architecture as a modern work that challenged the tenets of modernism by engaging a toxic site and celebrating an industrial past. Haag’s work with ecologists and soil scientists in his landscape remediation and reclamation projects opened new areas of inquiry into the adaptive reuse of post-industrial sites.

Thaisa Way places Haag’s work within the context of changes in the practice of landscape architecture over the past five decades in the Pacific Northwest and nationally. The book should be of interest to specialists as well as to readers who are interested in the changes in urban landscapes inspired by Haag’s work.

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Review:

While the book tells Haag's story, it also describes the evolution of landscape architecture in the Northwest.

Source: Columns

Since 1964, when he founded the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, Haag has gained a warranted admiration that Way has sharply surveyed and illustrated in her new book.

Author: Paul Dorpat Source: Pacific NW Magazine

This very detailed work is most useful for professionals. The book brings new attention to Pacific Northwest landscape design. Recommended.

Source: Choice

From the Author:

Thaisa Way is associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Washington. She is the author of Unbounded Practices: Women, Landscape Architecture, and Early Twentieth Century Design.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0295994487
• ISBN 13: 9780295994482
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248